Xinshun 1730

Chapter 763 Dutch Disaster Year ([-])
In general, at this time there was an excess of financial capital in Europe, but the direction of investment was limited.

This means that Dashun will be able to borrow money in Europe conveniently in the future.

It also means that after the War of Austrian Succession, a larger-scale war will inevitably spread to the whole world after Dashun is gone, and the war from Europe to Luzon will be very tragic.

After the 20-year financial crisis, both Britain and France have tightened their policies and strengthened government supervision to prevent the recurrence of the South China Sea and Mississippi bubbles.

It makes capital more inclined to invest in more stable national debt, especially after Dashun destroyed the Dutch East India Company, which also means that the governments of Britain, France and other countries can more easily borrow enough money.

If you have money, you can fight.

Only by borrowing money can we fight larger battles.

When there are many investment directions and can often earn 20% annual interest, capital will not buy government bonds.Even if you buy it, you can never expect to borrow such low interest rates as 3% or 6%.

Of course, it does not mean that there will be a war if there is excess capital and limited investment direction.Rather, it is a prerequisite for the outbreak of a long and tragic war.

Moreover, once this kind of war breaks out, it often means the overall decline of an alliance group and internal revolution.Because borrowing too much money, the capital bets on each other, all counting on winning the battle to make money in the future.

Bet too much, winner takes all, loser revolution.

And once the fight starts, not anyone can stop it if they want to.

Otherwise, I have already borrowed so much money, and if I lose, how can I pay back the money?
These situations are of course good news for Dashun, which is unlikely to be affected by the war outside the ocean.

In fact, it is actually good news for the Netherlands.

If Dashun ends, it can keep Amsterdam's status as the European financial center, as long as Dashun provides enough investment direction.

Including national debt, including Dashun, in fact, it completed the initial stage of the industrial revolution one step ahead.

Once the European and American markets are opened, there will be many investment directions.

A large amount of European hot money can flow to Dashun.

As long as Dashun raises shares in Europe or borrows national debt in Amsterdam in the future, if the Netherlands can cooperate with Dashun, abolish the Anglo-Dutch mutual defense treaty, and expel the Orange family after 45 years of disasters, In fact, there is still a chance to come back to life.

Just like after the last catastrophic year, France expelled the Protestant edict, which brought blood back to the Netherlands.It was France that destroyed the Netherlands last time; it was France that saved the Netherlands.

This time is the same.It was Dashun who destroyed the Netherlands; it was Dashun who could save the Netherlands.

All in all, the future of the Netherlands is still bright.

Just find the right partner.

It cannot be said that cooperating with Dashun is equivalent to being used as a weapon by Dashun. Anyway, Britain has no way to make an expedition to Dashun. If the Netherlands and Dashun get too close to smuggle together, they will be targeted by Britain.

Because even if the Netherlands does not cooperate with Dashun, sooner or later the UK will destroy the Netherlands' commercial capabilities.

The Anglo-Dutch wars have been fought three times before, and the contradictions may not be as great as those between Britain and France.

Sooner or later you will be beaten, so it is better to prepare early and find a partner earlier.

Or just lie down completely and abolish your own transportation capacity, commercial market, and financial status.

But it is very unrealistic not to want to lie flat, but also to expect that Britain will not beat itself in the future.

Cooperating with Dashun, the future is bright.

It's just that, in Amsterdam at this time, no one can see this.

Not even hope.

From the low-level craftsmen, to the middle-level small shareholders, to the high-level aristocratic oligarchs, and even the highest-level consul council... everything they see in their eyes is despair.

For Dashun, if Songjiang's stock market collapsed, it would have little impact.Songjiang can only be regarded as a budding state, and the essence of Dashun is still a pinnacle of feudal monarchy based on small farmers.

But Holland went too fast.When other countries were still farming, the Netherlands added fishing and textiles; when other countries were weaving, the Netherlands transported and delivered goods;

Under such circumstances, when the news of Dashun’s voyage to Nanyang came out on August 8, the entire Netherlands fell into collapse, and the financial market was in chaos. The province of Amsterdam was the first to bear the brunt and fell into riots.

A large number of middle-level shareholders surrounded the headquarters building of the East India Company and demanded payment.

The problem is that the East India Company simply doesn't have that much cash in hand.

If he really has sufficient cash, such as in the era of 50% dividends, he would like to publish the accounts every six months to stimulate investor confidence.

The accounts are only published once every ten years. It is obvious that there is insufficient cash, and the internal needs to make fake accounts, and try to maintain as much as possible.

Seeing that their stocks are about to become waste paper, a large number of Amsterdam citizens are at a loss.

At this time, the person who was arranged here by Liu Yu when he came last time finally got his chance.

These men began to infiltrate the streets of Amsterdam, sowing chaos among the desperate citizens.

The method of spreading chaos is actually very simple.

Is the private property of the directors of the company responsible for the company's debts?

From a legal point of view, there is no responsibility.The money I earn, the company's debts, it's none of my business?If I am responsible, will these small shareholders also be responsible?
However, when the public is angry, the so-called law may not be meaningful.

The current situation is that stocks are likely to become waste paper; the directors of the East India Company are all rich; the company's accounts are only published once every ten years;

After a little incitement, these citizens who held shares but were unwilling to gamble and lose, suddenly became overwhelmed. While surrounding the headquarters building of the East India Company, they also shouted slogans: If the company does not pay the money, let 17 people Director also!

It was certainly pointless and just an emotional outlet, but it could easily have caused chaos in Amsterdam.

The chaos instigated among the populace was more than that.

A large number of false rumors spread rapidly in various provinces of the Netherlands.

Although the yellow tabloid founded by Liu Yu was banned when Liu Yu left Amsterdam a few years ago.

However, some of the people left behind are still playing their role, instigating the emotions of the people among the people.

【The ruling wife is a British princess. She has always looked down on the Netherlands, thinking that everything in the Netherlands cannot be compared with the UK...】

[Do you expect an Englishman to not think about England?Why did the Netherlands get involved in the Austrian wars?Why did the Netherlands help Britain go to war?All this is because the ruling wife is a British princess. 】

[She pretended to be pregnant and returned to England because she just wanted to borrow a Protestant aristocratic seed so that the child in her womb could obtain the right to inherit the British throne. 】

[The decline of the Netherlands was all caused by the United Kingdom.The British took away the Dutch golden age, and Dutch cargo ships were restricted by the British "Navigation Regulations". 】

[The ruling wife said that if the ruling government does not stand with the United Kingdom, she will refuse to sleep with him at night, because the British princess thinks that the consul looks like an African baboon, so she will suppress her nausea and sleep with him. 】

All kinds of vicious, personal attack, and indiscriminate rumors began to spread in the Netherlands as early as after the outbreak of the Battle of Fontenoy.

Most of them are fake, but even if they are fake, there is still a large part of truth in them.The war failed, the decision-making failed, and the wrong team was taken, and someone in charge had to be found.

The people of the Netherlands hate the parliamentarians and the oligarchs.

However, the declaration of war against France, the full support for Austria, and the subsequent veto of Dashun's prospecting and trade requirements triggered Dashun's attack on Southeast Asia and other incidents, none of which had anything to do with the parliamentarians and oligarchs.

At least, this was not a decision made by the Great Speaker when he was on stage.

It was a decision made after William IV marched to Amsterdam and became the governor of the seven provinces.

These rumors spread very easily. At least before the news of Dashun's voyage to Nanyang came, in Amsterdam, the regency oligarchs even contributed to it and secretly provided a lot of help.

Many people in Dashun don't know the Netherlands, but if you use the known history of Dashun, you can roughly know what the Netherlands is like at this time.

The Netherlands, to a certain extent, is a bit like the Ming Dynasty at the end of Ming Dynasty.

Before the outbreak of the fourth Anglo-Dutch war in history, the oligarchs had known for a long time that the relationship with Britain continued to falter, and war would definitely break out.

However, the choice they made under this far-sighted view was not to actively prepare for war.

Instead, while supporting the anti-British and anti-consul faction, they quietly hoarded the lumber used for shipbuilding.Because if there is a war with the United Kingdom, the Netherlands needs to expand its fleet, and the timber hoarded at this time will be able to make a fortune by then.

When the fight really broke out, the oligarchs sold shipbuilding timber at high prices while refusing to pay taxes.

When the government recruited sailors to join the warships, the oligarchs doubled the salaries of the sailors on the smuggling ships, making the fleet unable to recruit sailors at all.The oligarchs took advantage of the breakdown of Anglo-Dutch relations without a war, and made a fortune by smuggling in America on a large scale.

When Britain finally took action and began seizing Dutch merchant ships in the Caribbean, the Regency oligarchs began to question the consul vigorously at home: why not do something?Why not send a fleet to protect the interests of the Dutch people?Are we to endure the insolence of the British all this time?

When the Dutch government decided to build a ship and prepare a fleet to escort in the Caribbean, the Regency oligarchs refused to pay taxes, and believed that it was unreasonable to raise inheritance tax and asset tax, and they should not be taxed to build ships.

By the way, since the government wanted to build ships, the timber they had hoarded before could be sold at a good price.

Escort, whose interests are you protecting?These people know it all.

However, it is impossible to make them pay taxes.

Did they know that they hoarded goods and refused to pay taxes, what would happen if the Netherlands lost the war?
Or do you feel that the consequences don't affect them?
It's really hard to tell.

In short, it is probably such a group of people.

At this time, the Orange faction gained the status of consul, and the attitude of these regent oligarchs was "We will oppose whatever the consul does."

Because, the regency oligarchs are convinced that the biggest enemy of the Netherlands, or they, is not the outside world, but a powerful Orange family that may centralize power.

In the Netherlands, the Orange family is the savior, the infallible, the hope in times of despair.

This kind of power must be destroyed no matter what, no matter what method is used, the only threat capable of destroying the special "republican system" of the Netherlands must not be allowed to grow day by day.

Amsterdam is the stronghold of the anti-consul faction, so William IV did not dare to live in Amsterdam, so he had to go to The Hague.

Therefore, when these obviously inciting words were spread in Amsterdam, Amsterdam gave the green light.

With the cooperation of the Dutch, those rumors and slanders spread quickly throughout the Netherlands.

(End of this chapter)